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So I tried two costumes, with oddly varying results. I think the bottom line is that people much prefer me to be dressed as a vampire, and that livredor invariably gives me the most candy. And people who trick me give me the same things always, but shreena manages to take much more candy from me if my costume is so clumsy that I have difficulty handling things. I would've given you some if you'd asked, you know!

( Trick-or-treating as a vampire )

( Trick-or-treating as a psychedelic, fire-breathing dragon )

Oh, also? elemy, I think you really tricked me too, 'cause you gave me something that was light green and it turned out to be licorice. You know how I feel about licorice! ;)

Heh. I amuse myself.

I was thinking about those lists of 25 words I made back in August, and I decided that I'd use the first one in this Halloween fic. I won't use quite all of the words, probably, 'cause I'm fitting the words to the story and not vice versa, but I'm going to try and use most of them. I have this strange idea, however, that "politically correct" isn't going to be making an appearance. Still, you never know. Spatula might not work either. But I could definitely substitute ladle!

Uhhhhh

I woke up ridiculously early (I'm going to try to go back to sleep), and I'm feeling horribly yucky. Maybe I won't go to class. But it feels like such a copout! I keep missing German. Though I guess I'm proportionally more likely to, as I have it every day.

Concerts and concert protocols

Despite my lack of sleep and my not feeling well, I decided to go to the concert at Zellerbach that I had tickets for. It was a German youth orchestra playing Strauss, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, and Sibelius, and in the end I was glad I went. For a start, they were really very good. Secondly, the virtuoso violinist who played for the Sibelius was amazing. He's 16 years old.... and attends Crossroads, which, when I saw this fact, surprised me not a whit. Kristin, who was sitting next to me, muttered that he must go through a bow every night, which I didn't disagree with, seeing as how he broke about five hairs on his bow during the one piece. There was much confusion at the end of the Shostakovich; the program said there were five movements, they clearly had only gone through three (Kristin and I were both convinced of this independently), and then they finished. So I couldn't clap for the soloists as I had wanted, because I was trying to be good and not clap between movements. Which is a piece of etiquette, I might add, that the majority of the audience seemed not to have been schooled in, which made it doubly confusing that they seemed to be finishing after three movements.

Speaking of which, what's the protocol for the following? The conductor announces that, as a sign of the friendship between our countries, they're going to play both our national anthems. Given that America is full of patriotic fools, a large part of the audience stands up during the American anthem, which is played first. Now, two things must be decided. 1) Does one clap at the end of each anthem, or after both are finished, treating them each as a movement of a larger piece? 2) Does one remain standing during the German anthem, as well? I would say that one wouldn't clap between the two anthems and that one would remain standing for the German anthem, but apparently much of the audience didn't agree with me. Although, to be fair, this is the same audience that was clapping between definite movements. *sigh*

Now I'm going to go to sleep and hope that I'll sleep for a sensible length of time tonight. Grr.